<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On 29 Feb 2012, at 14:58, Liam Proven wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>May I suggest you post in text, not HTML? That way multi-level quoting works.<br></div></blockquote><div>I am manually snipping the older quotes</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>TBH, I am not sure of the best place to start asking about moving<br>ARM/Linux to a specific platform.<br><br>I would think some key questions would be:<br>* Do you already have a reference platform or are you building your own?<br></div></blockquote>We would be building our own hardware, completely from scratch<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>* Have you chosen the chipset, componentry etc.?<br></div></blockquote><div>All we know so far is that we will use an Intel Atom processor (that's now been decided)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>* Failing that, are you going with COTS hardware?<br></div></blockquote><div>no, the hardware will be completely custom-designed</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>* What distro do you want to use?<br></div></blockquote><div>we are ideally looking at Debian or Ubuntu</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>If you were using a reference platform or COTS and, say, talking about<br>Debian/ARM, I'd ask on the Debian developers' list.<br><br>If you were looking at a whole new bespoke platform, then perhaps the LKML.<br><br>Does that help at all?<br><br>I'd need to know more specifics if you wanted more detailed info. I<br>understand that there might be issues of confidentiality but you'll<br>have to sort out internally what you can & can't disclose and talk<br>about if you want to get guidance and info from any public fora, not<br>just this mailing list.<br></div></blockquote><div>I am in charge of the project, we are willing to disclose most information regarding the hardware</div><div><div><br></div></div><div>
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